Dornbirn train station

Dornbirn
	View of the reception building of the Dornbirn train station and the adjacent bus station
Data
Operating point type	railway station
Location in the network	Intermediate station
Platform tracks	3
abbreviation	do
IBNR	8100122
opening	1872
location
City / municipality	Dornbirn
state	Vorarlberg
Country	Austria
Coordinates	47 ° 25 '3 " N , 9 ° 44' 20" E Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '3 " N , 9 ° 44' 20" E
railway station	429 m above sea level A.
Railway lines
	Lindau – Bludenz (km 22,233);
List of train stations in Austria

The Dornbirn train station is the station of the Austrian city of Dornbirn in the state of Vorarlberg . It is located on the Lindau – Bludenz railway line and is served by long-distance and regional trains of the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB). The train station is one of four train stations in Dornbirn as well as one of the most important of the Vorarlberg S-Bahn with a transfer function for regional and municipal bus services in the Vorarlberg Unterland and the Bregenz Forest .

history

The Dornbirn train station was put into operation on July 1, 1872 by the private Vorarlberger Bahn . The original reception building can no longer be seen today, but its structure still forms the ground floor of the reception building . Emperor Franz Joseph I visited the city of Dornbirn from August 7th to 9th, 1881 to put the first telephone of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy into operation and arrived at the Dornbirn train station, but at that time there was still no continuous rail service other Austrian federal states possible, as the Arlberg tunnel was not completed until three years later, in 1884. From the time the Arlberg Tunnel was opened on September 21, 1884, there were also daily long-distance trains to Innsbruck and Vienna. From 1902 until it was closed in 1938, the Dornbirn – Lustenau electric railway , a tram between the two eponymous communities, ran from the station forecourt.

View of the Dornbirn train station in 1975

Today's view of the reception building from the station forecourt

At the turn of the century, the Dornbirn station was converted for the first time, with additions for freight traffic and an increase in the reception building. The now two-storey building already corresponded to the current cubage of the reception building at the Dornbirn train station. In the 1920s, the entire railway line was electrified, including the Dornbirn train station. The station was completely renovated for the first time in 1955, when it was supposed to be made “suitable for trade fairs”, i.e. representative and organizationally coordinated with the flow of visitors to the Dornbirn trade fair . In 1965, the track system on the east side was extended, connections for neighboring companies were created in the area of the station and the safety systems were modernized.

The most recent and most lasting change was made to the station area in the course of modernization in the run-up to the 2007 World Gymnaestrada , for which Dornbirn was the venue. The existing building was completely renovated, the underpass and all platforms were modernized and adapted to the current train station design of the ÖBB, and a supermarket located directly on the platform, bicycle parking spaces and a transition to the newly designed bus station were built right in front of the reception building. The reception building was painted in "ÖBB-Red". Two additional new underpasses were built in the north-eastern part of the station, one of which should allow direct access to the platform from the northern side of the station. The renovation, which lasted from August 2005 to June 2007, cost 28 million euros, making it one of the largest infrastructure investments in the rail sector in Vorarlberg in those years. In 2013, the train station was voted the most beautiful train station in Vorarlberg for the sixth year in a row as part of the train test by the Austrian Transport Club .

Location and surroundings

View of the bus station and the post office building on the station forecourt

Dornbirn train station is located on the edge of the city center and separates the densely populated inner city core of the Markt district in the south from the Rohrbach residential district in the north. The station itself and the railway line are therefore exactly on the district boundary. However, the main exit of the station as well as the central reception building and all parking spaces are located on the southern, inner-city side of the station. There is direct, covered access from the platform underpass to the city's central bus station in front of the reception building. From here, directly adjacent to the train station, there is a Sutterlüty supermarket and the post office building , in which the Dornbirn city center of the Austrian Post is located. To the northeast of the reception building, a two-storey bicycle garage was built with the last renovation, where there are both public parking spaces and lockable storage boxes for bicycles. From the train station, Bahnhofstrasse leads south towards the city center, while Dr.-Anton-Schneider-Strasse runs north-east along the railroad tracks.

In the reception building there is a waiting room for travelers, a bakery branch and a mobility center for the Vorarlberg transport association . The ticket sales and contact points for the ÖBB and the bus routes are concentrated in this mobility center.

Since the train station and its surroundings have been a social problem hotspot for many years, where there have been repeated complaints and attacks, a new service building for the Federal Police has been built on a property southwest of the station forecourt, directly on platform 1, since 2019 . The Dornbirn police station and the district police command are to be housed in this building. The planned completion date is autumn 2020.

traffic

Due to its high passenger frequency as the train station of the largest city in Vorarlberg, Dornbirn is served by regional express, InterCity, Railjet and Nightjet trains in addition to the S1 line of the Vorarlberg S-Bahn . The Railjets run six times a day from Bregenz via Dornbirn and Vienna Hauptbahnhof to Vienna Airport station .

Train type	course	frequency
IC	Lindau Hbf - Bregenz - Dornbirn - Feldkirch - Bludenz - Innsbruck Hbf	One pair of trains a day
RJ	Bregenz - Dornbirn - Feldkirch - Bludenz - St. Anton am Arlberg - Innsbruck Hbf - Salzburg Hbf - Linz Hbf - St. Pölten - Vienna main station - Vienna airport station	Every two hours
NJ	Vienna - Linz - Salzburg - Innsbruck - Bludenz - Feldkirch - Dornbirn - Bregenz	One pair of trains a day
REX	( Lindau -) Bregenz - Dornbirn - Feldkirch - Bludenz (- Schruns )	Every half hour, in the hour in which the Railjet runs, there is no pair of REX trains
S.	S 1 Lindau Hbf - Lochau-Hörbranz - Bregenz Harbor - Bregenz - Riedenburg - Lauterach - Wolfurt - Schwarzach - Haselstauden - Dornbirn - Dornbirn Schoren - Hatlerdorf - Hohenems - Altach - Götzis - Klaus in Vorarlberg - Sulz-Röthis - Rankweil - Feldkirch Amberg - Feldkirch - Frastanz - Schlins-Beschling - Nenzing - Ludesch - Nüziders - Bludenz	Every half hour, individual trains from Bludenz continue as ( S 4 to Schruns, with train division in Bludenz)

The buses of the Dornbirn city bus , regional buses of the Landbus Unterland and the Landbus Bregenzerwald as well as long-distance buses and coaches depart from the bus station on the station forecourt .

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Dornbirn - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Josef Huber: Dornbirn train station . Article in the Dornbirn Lexicon (lexikon.dornbirn.at) of the Dornbirn City Archives .
↑ Bludenzer Bahnhof shows its colors. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
^ Dornbirn station renovation: The planned measures . Article in the reader service of Vorarlberger Nachrichten , June 2005.
↑ Gorbach: 28 million euros for the Dornbirn train station . APA-OTS press release of the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology dated December 23, 2004.
↑ Dornbirn has the most beautiful train station . Article on vorarlberg.ORF.at from August 19, 2013.
↑ Safety inspection at Dornbirn train station. In: Website of the Vorarlberg State Police Command. February 28, 2020, accessed June 8, 2020 .
↑ Building decision for the police at Dornbirn train station. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . June 22, 2018, accessed June 6, 2020 .
↑ Dornbirn police building at the train station - start of construction fixed. In: Vorarlberg Online (VOL.at). May 6, 2019, accessed June 6, 2020 .

Previous station	Vorarlberg S-Bahn			Next station
Haselstauden ← ( Lindau Hbf ), Bregenz harbor		S1		Dornbirn Schoren Bludenz →
Riedenburg ← Lindau Hbf		REX		Hohenems Feldkirch , Bludenz →

[Dornbirn_Lexikon-1] A ^b Josef Huber: Dornbirn train station . Article in the Dornbirn Lexicon (lexikon.dornbirn.at) of the Dornbirn City Archives .

[2] Bludenzer Bahnhof shows its colors. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .

[3] Dornbirn station renovation: The planned measures . Article in the reader service of Vorarlberger Nachrichten , June 2005.

[4] Gorbach: 28 million euros for the Dornbirn train station . APA-OTS press release of the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology dated December 23, 2004.

[5] Dornbirn has the most beautiful train station . Article on vorarlberg.ORF.at from August 19, 2013.

[6] Safety inspection at Dornbirn train station. In: Website of the Vorarlberg State Police Command. February 28, 2020, accessed June 8, 2020 .

[7] Building decision for the police at Dornbirn train station. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . June 22, 2018, accessed June 6, 2020 .

[8] Dornbirn police building at the train station - start of construction fixed. In: Vorarlberg Online (VOL.at). May 6, 2019, accessed June 6, 2020 .